1pm Maya Deren Theater
The Only Way is Up: Web Distribution After the Dot-com Crash
Free Panel!
The year 2000 was a sobering one for many web-based artists, producers and distributors. With the unceremonious folding of major dot-com enterprises such as Pop, DEN and Pseudo, many investors decided to abandon producing "web content." At the same time, some headway was made by smaller independent web producers and distributors who took alternative approaches. This panel discussion is intended to provide queer independent filmmakers working in short digital formats with a broad survey of the current landscape of web distribution, in the wake of last year's dot-com collapse and against the backdrop of the advancing recession. This discussion will range over both commercially-oriented web distribution avenues and more grassroots initiatives informed by the great indie spirit. There is still tremendous unrealized potential for using the web as a distribution mechanism, and this panel will help queer independent filmmakers understand how they can tap that potential. Co-presented by the Independent Feature Project (IFP), 104 West 29th Street, 12th Fl., New York, NY 10001.
contact: Natalie Bender, Membership Associate, (212) 465-8200.
nbender@ifp.org
www.ifp.org
>> Invited panelists include:
Simon Assaad Partner, Heavy.com
Tammy Rae Carland Founder, Mr.Lady.com
Christa Erickson, Web-based artist and Assistant Professor, SUNY Stony Brook
Rachel Melman, Project Coordinator, Artstream.org
Don Thompson President and CEO, nextPix.com
Moderated by: Kerry Weldon, Independent Feature Project

2:30pm Maya Deren Theater
Special Presentation:
Richard Fung's Family Trilogy
The Way to My Father's Village (1988),
My Mother's Place (1990) and Sea in the Blood (2000)
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The final chapter in an informal trilogy about family history, Sea in the Blood is Richard Fung's deeply affecting remembrance of his sister Nan, whose early death from a hereditary blood disease is refracted through life with his lover Tim, a longtime AIDS survivor. In tribute to Fung's extraordinary, sustained achievement in experimental documentary, MIX presents the complete trilogy, including The Way to My Father's Village, which sets Fung's search for his Chinese roots against his father's cultural self-denial; and My Mother's Place, which explores the formation of race, class and gender under colonialism through his mother's saucy and poignant recollections.

4pm Courthouse Theater
I've Been Framed: Queer Youth Media
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Youth media necessitates sensitively constructed context, which re-frames representation in a moment of new mainstream queer youth visibility. These videos demonstrate the formal eclecticism of alternative youth-produced works, ranging from the rough improvisation of collective productions to recognizably avant-garde personal works, disrupting the possibility of a common "queer youth voice." A dynamic crowd of new young audiences MIXed with the usual suspects from queer alterna-media promises a powerful exchange. Panel to follow. Curated by Paper Tiger TV.
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5pm Maya Deren Theater
The Trouble with Normal
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The Trouble with Normal features work which contemplates the exclusionary aspects of behaviors, positions or identities. Specifically, these films and videos deconstruct, interrogate or parody norms to which one must conform in order to be granted a particular identity or participatory rights within a group. The program explores the means by which representation and language offer limited options for conceptualizing a self and ultimately, the dictates and dilemmas of belonging. Featuring work by Paula Durette, Ray Rea, Kristin Anchor and Paul Chan. Curated by Kathy Burdette.
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6pm Courthouse Theater
Fuck Logic
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We think we're so smart, with our super-conducting supercolliders, Human Genome projects, artificial hearts and Theories of Everything. Yet for all our faith in logic and reason, we can't get enough temptation islands, Viagra with crystal and pasty politician sex lives. Is something amiss with the Enlightenment? These shorts take us on a wild ride through the messy side of mind, compelling reminders that our brains are squishy gray stuff with the consistency of a good crème brulée. Featuring work by Ho Tam, Dean Otto & Marjorie Thieman and Neil Goldberg. Curated by the Festival Committee.
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7pm Maya Deren Theater
MIX Mexico: Corazon de Quinceañera
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You are cordially invited to the presentation in society of our dearest daughter, Corazon de Quinceañera. At the celebration, you'll be treated to Madonna as God on earth, cyborg Russian dolls, urgent little boy-girls, the pain of love and love of pain, exquisite corpses and the mechanics of dreams. And for dessert, there's a Jell-O that'll send you into ecstasy! Curated by Claudia Pardo and Arturo Castelan. Co-presented with the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York.
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8pm Courthouse Theater
Heavy Petting
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For all those girls who got a funny feeling in their panties from horseback riding and all those boys who didn't stop Rover from humping their leg, these shorts delve into our collective beastly subconscious. As queer sex becomes status quo, could it be that animals are the next frontier for exploring the kinks of our desire, fantasies and taboos? It ain't called doggy-style for nothin'. Featuring work by Martha Colburn, Shawn Atkins, Amy Hill, Mirha Soliel-Ross, and Rick Castro. Curated by the Festival Committee. Party to follow at Idlewild, 145 East Houston Street (between 1st and 2nd Avenue).
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9pm Maya Deren Theater
Innovators Features
I Am Not What You Want
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Directed by Kit Hung (2001, Hong Kong, 50 min.) New York premiere
Young hearts run free. Emerging director Kit Hung, one of the discoveries of MIX 2000, returns with an impressively assured first featurette. The tale of two students--one queer, one curious--sharing a Hong Kong flat and gradually awakening to each other's charms, the film gently instructs us not to ignore love when it's right in front of us. Shot with a spare, precise lyricism and suffused with a meltingly romantic feeling (hardened cynics, beware), I Am Not What You Want signals the arrival of a major new talent in the world of queer experimental cinema.
Shown with:
Surface Noise
Directed by Abigail Child (2000, USA, 20 min.)
Found footage exploring public and private space, organized formally as a sonata, centered around work and issues of class: the divisions between home and public, owners and workers, saturation and flow, structure and improvisation. -- A. Child

10pm Courthouse Theater
Scared Stiff III: Bloody Sheets
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Forget those flaccid horror movie sequels as MIX's trailblazing queer horror spotlight Scared Stiff returns like a bat outta hell to strike terror into your heart and slash pale imitators to ribbons. Lesbian vampires (naturally), human sacrifice, skeletons with boners and serial Internet stalkers converge in this coven of macabre and sexy shorts. Featuring work by Jenelle Troxell, Wayne Yung, Shawn Durr and Bobby Abate. Curated by the Festival Committee. Party to follow at Idlewild, 145 East Houston Street (between 1st and 2nd Avenue).
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11pm Maya Deren Theater
Memorizing MIX: The First 15 Years
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Program III: Shoot Fast, Play Hard, 1997-2000
Experimental filmmaking during the 20th century's final years investigated the ultra-new and the formative past. Perhaps most memorable from MIX's programming during this time was the in-depth engagement of immediacy and improvisation in the moving image through Super 8mm film and digital video. Both formats offer surprising aesthetic similarities and relatively low-cost, innovation-inspiring potential for filmmakers. This program highlights some of the most energetic, enigmatic and enchanting Super 8 and digital video "instant visions" that appeared over these past four years. Featuring work by Ximena Cuevas, Martha Colburn, Rodney Evans and Lynne Chan. Curated by Rajendra Roy, Executive Director, 1996-2000, and Anie S8 Stanley, Artistic Director, 1997-2000. Come to the Memorizing MIX reception at Wonderbar (505 East 6th Street) on Saturday, Nov. 17, 7pm.
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12am Courthouse Theater
Visions of Excess:
The Cutting
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Directed by Peter Missotten & Bram Smeyers (2000, Belgium, 95 min.)
U.S. premiere
Two cuties--willowy Frank and lanky Wout--have committed an unspeakable crime, and try to outrun reprisal by fleeing in opposite directions. Somehow, they end up in the same spot--a nocturnal woods filled with surreal surprises. When their assigned killer catches up with them, the film morphs into a vertiginous Moebius-strip of eternal return. Pitched exactly between horror and humor, with the three motormouths riffing nonstop on everything from the Spice Girls to fluted knives, The Cutting is a boldly experimental thriller that haunts the imagination long after its breathtaking finish.

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